Erhardt + Leimer GmbH
Augsburg automation specialist founded 1919; global leader in web guiding, tension control, and 100% inspection systems for process industry.
Erhardt+Leimer GmbH is a privately owned, internationally operating group of companies founded in 1919 and headquartered in Stadtbergen-Leitershofen near Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, with a second production site in Augsburg on Rumplerstrasse. With more than 1,600 employees across 19 subsidiaries on four continents, Erhardt+Leimer is one of the world's leading suppliers of automation systems for moving web and belt production processes.
The company's core competency is providing complete integrated system solutions for continuous manufacturing processes involving flexible materials running through industrial machinery. Its product portfolio covers every phase of web handling:
Web Guiding and Edge Control: Sensor-actuator systems that keep moving webs aligned with sub-millimeter precision throughout winding, printing, coating, or laminating processes.
Web Tension Measurement and Control: Load cell-based and pneumatic dancer roll systems for maintaining constant tension across production runs.
Spreading Systems: Curved-bar, bowed-roll, and active-actuated spreader systems to eliminate wrinkles and creases in flexible web materials.
Cutting Technology: Precision slitting and cross-cutting systems for converting operations.
Measuring and Inspection Technology: Optical width measurement, registration mark detection, and basis weight sensing systems.
100% Print and Surface Inspection: Camera-based automated visual inspection for printing, packaging, and label production lines, enabling defect detection and print image quality monitoring at full production speed.
The company serves textiles and non-wovens, paper and tissue, corrugated board, flexible packaging film, rubber and tire manufacturing, specialty materials, and printing and publishing industries. International expansion began in the 1970s, and today the global service network supports application engineering, installation, commissioning, and after-sales service.
Erhardt+Leimer is listed on the ODVA marketplace as an EtherNet/IP participating vendor and exhibits regularly at All About Automation and international packaging and converting trade shows.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Web guiding systems
Sensor-and-actuator systems aligning continuous webs of film, textile or paper.
ELSCAN web monitoring system
Camera-based web monitoring system for real-time surface inspection of moving webs.
SMARTSCAN print inspection system
Automated print-inspection system detecting defects on printed webs.
ELSIS surface inspection
Surface inspection system detecting defects on moving film and paper webs.
EL.MOTION BLDC drive systems
Brushless DC drive units for precise web guiding and tension actuation.
ELMETA metal detection system
Inline metal detection system for foreign-metal contamination on webs.
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Company Facts
Founded
1919
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Manufacturer
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Primary Region
Europe
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